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February 2020
Talk with A-bomb Survivors in English
A valuable opportunity to talk with A-bomb survivors in English.
Find out more »Mihara Daruma Festival (Shinmei-ichi)
During the 3-day Mihara Daruma Festival the streets are taken over by stalls selling lucky daruma dolls and every kind of festival food you can imagine. The pride of Mihara is also on display, the nation's biggest daruma doll which weighs in at a couple of hundred kilograms. Read and see more photos from the "Daruma Festival" here.
Find out more »HPAR 2020: Exhibition of art by people with disabilities
Local special needs school, Hull Pong, hosts an exhibition for artworks created by people with disabilities. Admission: Free Open: 10:30 (11:00 on the first day) - 18:30 Sponsors: Hiroshima City / Certified NPO Corporation Community Leader Hull Pong
Find out more »English Kagura Experience
Spectacularly entertaining local folk art with English language support and great photo opportunities.
Find out more »Senda Wasshoi Matsuri Flea Market
The biggest and most regular flea market in Hiroshima, held once a month in Higashi Senda Park, has stalls, music and a bit of a festival atmosphere.
Find out more »English Kagura Experience
Spectacularly entertaining local folk art with English language support and great photo opportunities.
Find out more »Ume-mi Plum Viewing Tea Ceremony
The over 100 plum trees in Shukkeien Garden that blossom in pink and white in February are tantalizing hints that, even though Hiroshima is still in the grip of winter, spring is on its way. Enjoy a traditional Japanese tea ceremony in the Seifukan tea house or indulge in a cup of sweet amazake in the area where most of the plum trees are clustered.
Find out more »English Kagura Experience
Spectacularly entertaining local folk art with English language support and great photo opportunities.
Find out more »English Kagura Experience
Kagura performances with English explanation, subtitles, Q&A and photo session at Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum.
Find out more »March 2020
English Kagura Experience
Kagura performances with English explanation, subtitles, Q&A and photo session.
Find out more »Kintai-kyo Bridge Road Races
2km, 5km, 10km and Half Marathon distance road races held next to the beautiful Kintai-kyo Bridge in Iwakuni. Entry fees Adults ¥3700 High School Students ¥2200 Junior High School Students ¥1200 (5km) Elementary School 3rd-6th Year Students ¥1200 (2km) Elementary School 1st & 2nd Year Students with parent ¥1200 (2km) Start times Half Marathon 09:20 2km (Elementary School 5th & 6th Year) 10:00 2km 10:01 (Elementary School 3rd & 4th Year) 2km 10:02 (Elementary School 1st & 2nd Year) 10km 10:30…
Find out more »Kudamatsu Kasadojima Island Trail Race
Challenging early season trail races on a very pretty island in the Inland Sea of the coast of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Find out more »Cross Shimanami Stamp Rally
At 70km, this could well be Japan's longest stamp rally!
Find out more »English Kagura Experience
Kagura performances with English explanation, subtitles, Q&A and photo session.
Find out more »Senda Wasshoi Matsuri Flea Market
The biggest and most regular flea market in Hiroshima, held once a month in Higashi Senda Park, has stalls, music and a bit of a festival atmosphere.
Find out more »Hiroshima Flower Expo: Hana-no-wa
8-month-long flower expo in Hiroshima city center.
Find out more »English Kagura Experience
Kagura performances with English explanation, subtitles, Q&A and photo session.
Find out more »Momo-mi Peach Blossom Viewing Tea Ceremony
Tea ceremonies through the day at this annual tea ceremony at Shukkei-en Garden. Price: ¥600 plus park admission fee
Find out more »April 2020
Senda Wasshoi Matsuri Flea Market
The biggest and most regular flea market in Hiroshima, held once a month in Higashi Senda Park, has stalls, music and a bit of a festival atmosphere.
Find out more »Fire walking ritual at Daishoin Temple
Photo: Lance Cpl. Benjamin Pryer "Hi-watari-shiki" Fire walking ritual takea place at Daishoin Temple on Miyajima twice a year on April 15 and November 15. Readings from the 8000 verse Perfection of Wisdom Sutra begin at 11am and extravagant Saito-goma rituals begin around 1pm in the temple forecourt with a purification offering to the alter and the chanting of sutras. This is followed by two Buddhist monks circling the area with swords and then shooting 7 arrows into the air…
Find out more »Setouchi Island Trail Race Kure – Kamikamagari
11km and 22km trail races with great views of the Seto Inland Sea, starting and finishing at Kenmin-no-hama Beach Park. 21km ¥6500 entry fee, 6 hour cut off 12km ¥4900 entry fee, 3.5 hour cut off Kids 2.6km ¥1500 entry fee, 45 minute cut off Online entry until March 13, 2020 at Runnet http://www.setouchi-itrail.com/ https://www.facebook.com/setouchi.itrail/ Read about one beginner's experience at the Setouchi Island Trail Race here.
Find out more »May 2020
Hiroshima Flower Festival
Hiroshima's biggest annual event, drawing in many more people than even the August 6 memorial day, the annual Flower Festival was inspired by the celebrations that followed the Hiroshima Carp's first championship in 1975. Crowded, noisy, high in kitsch and overtly commercial, it does, however, pull in tens of thousands of people from near and far, and many of them do seem to have a pretty good time. In addition to all the parades, pop bands, tarento celebrities, comedians and…
Find out more »Senda Wasshoi Matsuri Flea Market
The biggest and most regular flea market in Hiroshima, held once a month in Higashi Senda Park, has stalls, music and a bit of a festival atmosphere.
Find out more »June 2020
Toukasan Yukata Festival
Hiroshima really comes alive over the three nights of Tōkasan - a festival that really does feel "festive". Join the 300,000 people who will be donning their yukata for the first time this year who take over Chuo-dori and environs to promenade, play festival games like fish scooping, buy strange inflatable novelties and stuff their faces with equally strange stuff on sticks. As well as parades and summer bon dancing, there will be taiko drumming and other performances on stages…
Find out more »Mibu-no-Hanadaue Traditional Rice Planting Ritual
Mibu-no-hanadaue is a revived rice planting ritual said to have roots in the middle ages that is renacted on the first Sunday of June every year. The event was designated as a UNESCO Intangible Heritage in 2003 and many people now make the trip to Chiyoda in Kita-hiroshima to view it. Bulls are led through the streets to Mibu Hachiman Shrine where they are dressed with elaborately decorated saddles and colorful necklaces. They are then led to a field, and…
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